pio10_v_c_o_TPMBK (verso hand-annotated A72-1281)
“ARTIST: RICK GUIDICE PIONEER F SPACECRAFT IN ORBIT AROUND JUPITER”
NO……….AND……….NO ! ! ! ! !
I’m sorry, I can’t help it and I KNOW I shouldn’t be burning calories, popping blood vessels, raising my blood pressure, seeing red, etc., etc., but, damn, Damn, I Mean DAMN!!! REALLY???
I can ALMOST…NOT QUITE, but almost overlook the Guidice citation. He was producing a lot, if not most, of the conceptual Pioneer 10/11 Jupiter/Saturn & beyond artwork for the ARC during the early(?) – mid 70’s. However, wouldn’t the photograph/imagery, printing/publication department, section, office, supply/remedial writing room...clown factory…whatever it was called…dolt’s/dolts’ source work of this also have contained the artist’s signature, BEFORE THEY(?) would’ve cropped or otherwise removed it???
So, what, was Guidice was just an ‘educated’ guess? AGAIN, the bar was/is(?) EXCEEDINGLY LOW, so they get a pass on this.
And, it’s “Pioneer F” pre-launch/mission/flight, “Pioneer 10” upon launch/liftoff. A begrudging pass.
BUT - NOT - ON - THIS:
“…IN ORBIT AROUND JUPITER…”
Being a fairly historic ‘first’ & significant scientific/technical achievement, as far as space stuff goes, the media gave it plenty of coverage - providing desperately needed positive exposure. I remember such because I was really into it by that time. And as Pioneer neared Jupiter, IT WAS PUT OUT, OVER & OVER & OVER AGAIN that the spacecraft would ZOOM BY the planet, REALLY REALLY FAST, destined to eventually become the FIRST human-made object to LEAVE the solar system!!! You’d have to be living under - no, INSIDE a rock, beneath a glacier, in Antarctica, with earplugs & blinders on, to NOT know this…OR I suppose, work at NASA in whatever “office” responsible for releasing beautiful artwork of the aforementioned impending spectacular achievement.
To exacerbate this crap, as with way too many other instances of NASA photo-associated buffoonery, in lemming-like fashion, it’s propagated across the internet.
At least they stumbled upon the image & inadvertently posted it:
images.nasa.gov/details-ARC-1972-AC72-1281
See also:
solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/708/pioneer-10-at-jupiter-...
On the bright side, it’s by talented NASA(?)/NASA-commissioned(?) artist Joseph “Chris” Chizanskos. A HUGE WIN+!!! Unfortunately though, having been inside the event horizon of NASA’s artist identification, acknowledgment, recognition & preservation blackhole, there’s nary a trace of him, other than the cursory info by way of the NASA Art Program thing from back then. Also, regrettably, there appears to be only a blip of a gentleman with that name having passed in 1973.
An absolutely beautiful image. I’m assuming the ominous dark area just above & behind the spacecraft is the Great Red Spot. Probably no greater resolution of it available at the time? I also like the visually evident actual physical texture of the image, I suppose picked up by whatever photo, scanning, illumination equipment used to capture the image. Bravo at least on that! So, reasonable to conclude it was outsourced then.
Although obscure as hell, at least there’s this:
collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=%22Joseph+Christo...
Credit: Smithsonian NASM website
pio10_v_c_o_TPMBK (verso hand-annotated A72-1281)
“ARTIST: RICK GUIDICE PIONEER F SPACECRAFT IN ORBIT AROUND JUPITER”
NO……….AND……….NO ! ! ! ! !
I’m sorry, I can’t help it and I KNOW I shouldn’t be burning calories, popping blood vessels, raising my blood pressure, seeing red, etc., etc., but, damn, Damn, I Mean DAMN!!! REALLY???
I can ALMOST…NOT QUITE, but almost overlook the Guidice citation. He was producing a lot, if not most, of the conceptual Pioneer 10/11 Jupiter/Saturn & beyond artwork for the ARC during the early(?) – mid 70’s. However, wouldn’t the photograph/imagery, printing/publication department, section, office, supply/remedial writing room...clown factory…whatever it was called…dolt’s/dolts’ source work of this also have contained the artist’s signature, BEFORE THEY(?) would’ve cropped or otherwise removed it???
So, what, was Guidice was just an ‘educated’ guess? AGAIN, the bar was/is(?) EXCEEDINGLY LOW, so they get a pass on this.
And, it’s “Pioneer F” pre-launch/mission/flight, “Pioneer 10” upon launch/liftoff. A begrudging pass.
BUT - NOT - ON - THIS:
“…IN ORBIT AROUND JUPITER…”
Being a fairly historic ‘first’ & significant scientific/technical achievement, as far as space stuff goes, the media gave it plenty of coverage - providing desperately needed positive exposure. I remember such because I was really into it by that time. And as Pioneer neared Jupiter, IT WAS PUT OUT, OVER & OVER & OVER AGAIN that the spacecraft would ZOOM BY the planet, REALLY REALLY FAST, destined to eventually become the FIRST human-made object to LEAVE the solar system!!! You’d have to be living under - no, INSIDE a rock, beneath a glacier, in Antarctica, with earplugs & blinders on, to NOT know this…OR I suppose, work at NASA in whatever “office” responsible for releasing beautiful artwork of the aforementioned impending spectacular achievement.
To exacerbate this crap, as with way too many other instances of NASA photo-associated buffoonery, in lemming-like fashion, it’s propagated across the internet.
At least they stumbled upon the image & inadvertently posted it:
images.nasa.gov/details-ARC-1972-AC72-1281
See also:
solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/708/pioneer-10-at-jupiter-...
On the bright side, it’s by talented NASA(?)/NASA-commissioned(?) artist Joseph “Chris” Chizanskos. A HUGE WIN+!!! Unfortunately though, having been inside the event horizon of NASA’s artist identification, acknowledgment, recognition & preservation blackhole, there’s nary a trace of him, other than the cursory info by way of the NASA Art Program thing from back then. Also, regrettably, there appears to be only a blip of a gentleman with that name having passed in 1973.
An absolutely beautiful image. I’m assuming the ominous dark area just above & behind the spacecraft is the Great Red Spot. Probably no greater resolution of it available at the time? I also like the visually evident actual physical texture of the image, I suppose picked up by whatever photo, scanning, illumination equipment used to capture the image. Bravo at least on that! So, reasonable to conclude it was outsourced then.
Although obscure as hell, at least there’s this:
collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=%22Joseph+Christo...
Credit: Smithsonian NASM website